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SCHOOL HEALTH
(j) Delicate — Eleven children, one with a dual handicap, were ascertained during the year: six
were placed in special schools; two are awaiting placement; and three left the district before
placement.
Special schools
Education
(Handicapped
Children)
Act 1970
The Education Committee maintains five day special schools and one residential special school. All
admit a proportion of children from other boroughs.
Waverley School (Day) has accommodation for 150 educationally sub-normal children and includes a
nursery class and a special care unit. Weekly visits are paid by a medical officer. The children are
medically examined annually; a speech therapist visits weekly; and a physiotherapist visits twice
weekly.
Durants and Oaktree Schools (Day) provide accommodation for 320 educationally sub-normal boys
and girls, who are medically examined annually. Speech therapy was suspended at Durants School
after the summer term owing to staff shortages, but one session weekly continued at Oaktree School.
Durants School, where some pupils have dual handicaps, is attended twice weekly by a physiotherapist.
Hazelbury Open Air School (Day) provides places for 140 children of all ages who are delicate or who
have minor physical handicaps. A medical officer visits the school fortnightly. Each child is
medically examined annually - or more frequently where it appears desirable. The physiotherapist
visits the school twice weekly. The school nurse continued to supervise the children visiting the
swimming baths.
Aylands School (Day) provides places for 50 maladjusted boys and girls. The children are medically
examined annually and seen periodically by a psychiatrist.
Wavendon House residential school provides places for 50 maladjusted boys. Those boys at the school
whose parents live in Enfield are medically examined annually during school holidays and are also
seen periodically by a psychiatrist. A general medical practitioner looks after the health of the boys
during term time. The Principal School Dental Officer visits the school to inspect the pupils and
carry out simple treatment. The boys' dental condition was found to be generally satisfactory.
Provision of milk in schools
Education (Milk)
Act 1971
The Education (Milk) Act 1971 restricts the duty of local education authorities to provide milk in
schools to the following: all children up to the end of the summer term next following their seventh
birthday; pupils of all ages in special schools; and other children in primary schools where a certificate
given by a medical officer of the authority states that a child's health requires that he should be
provided with milk at school.
The provision of milk in school was certified as necessary for health reasons in the case of seventy
children. Seven applications were not sustained.
Home and hospital tuition
Section 56
Education Act 1944
In cases where children cannot, for various reasons, attend school, local education authorities are
empowered to provide home tuition. This provision was made for ten children during the year. In
addition, tuition was also provided in the paediatric ward of the North Middlesex Hospital.
Vaccination and immunisation
Statistics and details of the vaccination and immunisation of school children, provided under Sections
26 and 28 of the National Health Service Act 1946, are fully dealt with elsewhere in this report.
Head teachers continue to co-operate in the distribution of consent forms which serve not only to
emphasise to parents the need for immunological protection for their children, but also to remind
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